SEAPLANE TRAGEDY
Body of Airman Found - Melbourne, July 28. Buoyed by a partly-inflated life jacket,. the body of Pilot-Officer Charles Houston, of the missing R.A.F. machine, was found floating near Point Cooke. No trace of his companion, Ernest Yde, has been found. An Air Force seaplane containing two pilot officers, Ernest Yde, aged 20, and Charles Houston, aged 23, has been missing since I'Sortly before noon last Thursday. Search planes found a large patch of oil on the sea eight miles from Point Cook. Air Force officers were of opinion that the oil marked the place where the plane plunged into the water. Two fishermen reported that they saw the seaplane crush into the sea three miles from Point Cooke at noon on Thursday.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 11
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124SEAPLANE TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 11
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